NOTE: Subsequent thinking over these sculptures has led me to a working hypothesis that they are conceptually faulty,: Firstly, in the arbitrary system I used to make them (combining two objects). Secondly. because combining found objects, whilst potentially playful and incongruous, seems to dissolve the connection to the individual who lost the singular items, and thus interferes with the narrative potential which it was my intention to bring forward.
Two found objects (2023»)
Made entirely of objects found whilst out walking, these tiny assemblages are all under 20cm in any direction. Most of them are substantially smaller than that.
Now numbering over eighty separate works forming a whole, they are subject to a system of making, with each comprising only two found objects discovered at different times and places.
This method aims to concentrate the possibilities of incongruity, playfulness and imagined narrative that might emerge and therefore bring forth their “found-ness” as an intrinsic characteristic of my practice.
